Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esther L. Witkowska, a Pole, who was deported to work in the Degtyanka copper mines in the Ural Mountains, related: "I was assigned to the Moskva-Komsomol-skaya pits . . . Upon my arrival I found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
Next morning a letter from Southwark sent clerks from Conservative headquarters scurrying to check. In no time their faces were wreathed in happy smiles. Soon afterward faces at Transport House, where Labor holds forth, turned a dull brick red. "I deeply regret the mistake," stammered Party Secretary Morgan Phillips as he withdrew the boomeranging pamphlet amid general guffaws. "The photograph was selected from a collection of 13 supplied by a picture library in response to a request for suitable postwar babies...
Other points included: establishment of a "liaison" office responsible for "military and political affairs during a period of transition"; continued operation of "utilities, banks, warehouses and schools"; continuation of postal and telegraphic service with the outside world. Nationalist transport planes continued to evacuate military men and Kuomintang secret service operatives...
...Sachsenhausen). "A transport of prisoners reached the camp. As usual they were counted . . . There were two men extra . . . and German figures must and shall come right. A few revolver shots . . . worked out the sum . . . the two were carried away...